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California reptile museum scraping by after nearly 10-month closure [The San Diego Union-Tribune :: BC-AV-REPTILE-MUSEUM:SD]
SAN DIEGO The pandemic has been hard on every museum in San Diego County, but it’s become a true life-or-death struggle for the EcoVivarium in Escondido.
The 12-year-old reptile museum and education nonprofit at 641 E. Pennsylvania Ave. has become a refuge of last resort for nearly 300 unwanted, unadoptable and special needs animals, which include boa constrictors, monitor lizards, skinks, iguanas, geckos, chameleons, turtles, tortoises and tarantulas.
Up until last March, EcoVivarium was able to feed and care for its menagerie of donated animals and pay its staff of four through a mix of admission fees, school presentations, field trips, birthday party bookings and donations. But with the arrival of COVID-19, virtually all of that revenue disappeared. ....

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